The German State Theatre Timisoara, invited at the National Theatre Festival 2017

6 July 2017

The performance of the German State Theatre Timisoara (GSTT), „Spring Awakening” by Frank Wedekind, directed by Charles Muller, realized as a coproduction between Théâtre Municipal de la Ville d'Esch-sur-Alzette in Luxemburg, has been included in the official selection of the 2017 National Theatre Festival (NTF), which will be from the 20th untill the 30th of October 2017 in Bucharest.

On the 5th of July 2017, through a live transmission on the official site of the NTF, the theatre critic Marina Constantinescu announced the official selection of the 27th edition, of which there are 53 performances.

Frank Wedekind processed the morality befitting urges, life into his plays. He unmasked it as hypocrisy and set it in front of a vision of the world that celebrates life and sexuality. The freedom and beauty of the people that embrace sexuality was only found in the socially excluded: the circus, crooks and whores, even if they appear in a distorted form. The play „Spring Awakening” maintains it’s actuality „because prejudices long thought gone as well as double hypocritical morality still haunt or day to day, through our society, through politics, religion and last but not least through today’s political correctness”, considers the show’s set designer, Helmut Stürmer.

Andreea Andrei - Artistic ConsultantGabriela Schinderman - Secretary

Photo: Image from the performance “Spring Awakening”, a GSTT production. The image can be used in mass-media and promotional purposes, including electronic media